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Traditional pen and paper transactions are becoming more and more replaced by equivalent electronic services. Therefore electronic e-mail should also provide enhanced services as those provided by traditional mail. In this paper we present new optimistic protocols for certified e-mail. The major contribution of our paper is the definition of a new property, specific to certified no author-based selective receipt. This property requires that once the identity of the author of the mail is known, the receipt can not be refused any more. We present two certified e-mail protocols respecting this property.
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Kremer, S., Markowitch, O. (2001). Selective Receipt in Certified E-mail. In: Rangan, C.P., Ding, C. (eds) Progress in Cryptology — INDOCRYPT 2001. INDOCRYPT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2247. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45311-3_14
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